Added support for SkipRows option to the Delimited Text External File Format for Azure SQL DW. This capability allows users to skip a specified number of rows when loading delimited text files into SQL DW. Also added the corresponding intellisense/SMO support for the FIRST_ROW keyword.

Bug fixes

Fixed Live Query Statistics elapsed time, to show engine execution time instead of time elapsed for LQS connection.

Fixed an issue where showplan was not able to recognize Apply logical operators like GbApply and InnerApply.

Fixed an issue related to ExchangeSpill.

Query Editor:

Fixed on issue related to SPIDs where SSMS could throw an error like “Input string was not in a correct format. (mscorlib)” when executing a simple query preceded by a “SET SHOWPLAN_ALL ON”.

SMO:

Fixed an issue where SMO was not able to fetch AvailabilityReplica properties in case the server collation happened to be case-sensitive (as a result, SSMS could display an error message like “The multi-part identifier “a.delimited” could not be bound.”

Fixed an issue in DatabaseScopedConfigurationCollection class, where incorrectly handling collations (as a result, an SSMS running on an ma machine with a Turkish locale could display an error like “legacy cardinality estimation is not valid scoped configuration” when right clicking on a database running on a server with a case-sensitive collation).

Fixed an issue in JobServer class, where SMO was not able to fetch SQL Agent properties on a SQL 2005 server (as a result, SSMS was throwing an error like “Cannot assign a default value to a local variable. Must declare the scalar variable “@ServiceStartMode” and, ultimately, was not displaying the SQL Agent node in Object Explorer).

Known issues

Data classification:

Removing a classification and then manually adding a new classification for the same column results in the old information type and sensitivity label being assigned to the column in the main view.Workaround: Assign the new information type and sensitivity label after the classification was added back to the main view and before saving.